The size the person chooses is a starting point, not a box to fit into.
Tag: knitwear design
Knitwear Design 101: A monthly series
Yep, just when you thought I was finished writing a blog series! But this one is monthly rather than weekly, and there will be breaks in between with posts on a variety of subjects. I wanted to have a long-term series on knitwear design because it’s a subdiscipline of design that is also interdisciplinary within…
FN2N, part 8 | Towards a Caring Economy of Knitting
In my previous post I detailed some approaches to sustainable working practices that support designers and makers. This week I will step further back from knitting and crochet patterns to discuss how clothing production needs to get away from the market economy, and what that might mean for knitters, crocheters, and other clothes makers.
FN2N, part 3 | Design Process 1: Inspiration
Design is an interdisciplinary subject with care and communication at its heart; the most powerful, well-loved and transformative designs connect humans together. This is a bit of a series within a series discussing the stages of design process, beginning with design inspiration.
FN2N, Part 1 | The Three Lions of Knitting Patterns: The designer, the technical editor, and the grader
This is the first post in the From Needle to Needle series, which covers grading and the pattern production process as a whole from the designer’s standpoint. It’s the journey that an idea takes from a designer’s imagination to the home of a knitting customer – needle to needle. The first thing to do is…
From Needle to Needle: Introducing a new blog series
Introducing a new blog series, in which I discuss the journey that an idea takes from a designer’s imagination to the home of a knitter – needle to needle